Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/12/06/01:34:02
At 9:31 AM 94.12.5 +0100, terra AT diku DOT dk wrote:
> > What do people think about changing the object file format from COFF to
>ELF
> > for V2.0?...The drawback is that all existing libraries will have to be
> > recompiled, but is that such a bad thing?
>
> Conversion to version 2 is going to involve a certain amount of pain, but it
> sounds like it will be worth it. I doubt if I would have noticed the object
> file format change if you didn't mention it. Wasn't something else used
> before COFF? I found that change transparent.
>
>I didn't -- I had to redo Emacs' dumping. Right now I can think of
>three programs that would need some major hacking if the format was
>changed: Emacs, my Full Screen Debugger, and V2's djasm.
>
>So I don't think a change would be a good thing.
>
>Morten
Emacs has already have ELF version of dumping routine for Unixes. I don't
think it is difficult to migrate becuase MS-DOS/DJGPP specific change to
existing COFF version is trivial.
Mine
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